Re: [PATCH] iommu: Elaborate the usage of RMRR specification on the command line.

[Venu Busireddy <venu.busireddy@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:52:02AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 21.02.17 at 21:42, <venu.busireddy@oracle.com> wrote:
> > --- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
> > +++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
> > @@ -1406,6 +1406,15 @@ If segment of the first device is not specified, segment zero will be used.
> >  If other segments are not specified, first device segment will be used.
> >  If a segment is specified for other than the first device and it does not match
> >  the one specified for the first one, an error will be reported.
> > +
> > +'start' and 'end' values are page numbers (not full physical addresses).
> > +If the values are not preceded by "0x", they are treated as decimal.
> 
> Actually I think we should fix the code. I can't see how decimal
> numbers can be useful here, and it is actively confusing with ...

Fixed. I will post v2 for review.

> > +Usage example: If there are two devices 0:0:1d.0 and 0:0:1a.0 that require
> > +pages 0xd5d45 and 0xd5d46 to be reserved respectively, use:
> > +
> > +rmrr=0xd5d45=0:0:1d.0;0xd5d46=0:0:1a.0
> 
> ... the PCI device being specified without 0x prefixes.
> 
> Also can one of the two parts of the example be a range, please?

This too is done. v2 will be posted for review.

Venu


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